Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Sad news coming from Belgium, few days ago Dieter Samoy the bass guitarist and singer of Flemish Oi! Band Kill baby Kill died after committing a suicide. He was talented musician from one of the best ever RAC/Oi! bands. He will be missed by family, friends and the fans of Kill Baby Kill!!!

Below you can read a controversial article from local media, which was sent to us by Dieter’s girlfriend. Have in mind that the article is translated automatically in English, so the grammar is not perfect.

Convicted skinhead makes end his life

NA - One of the skinheads in Bruges last week were sentenced for violent attack on the African Raphael Mensah (52) in 2006, has one hours after the verdict was facing an end to his life. "He found the ruling unfair," says the father of Dieter S. (29). "He had no second chance, he saw no future." Cedric Lagast"When he was told last Tuesday that he was sentenced two years cell, he collapsed," says his father. "He was desperate. We are together with his lawyer to keep him inpraten. That appeal is still possible that he should cherish hope. But the verdict Friday when he laid eyes upon it, something must be broken. He saw his dreams to be an educator in smoke. He could not live with the stigma of racist violence to. My wife was with him, but he has an excuse from his mother sent home. They had to retrieve his girlfriend Priscilla of school. When she came home half hours later, they found him in the entrance hall.

"Heavy whipping

Nearly four years long Bruggeling Dieter S. insist that he had not participated in the beating of Raphael Mensah and his friend in West Flanders in May 2006. The two passed along the extreme right café 'De Kastelein "in Bruges and got it to stick with some skinheads. Mensah, a conductor with Gabonese Parisian roots, was more than one months in coma. A year later the man died of a pulmonary embolism. Although his family has always seen a connection between his death and the beating one years earlier, doctors have never prove.

Portrayed as a liar"

Those other two guys hit it already loose, then there was Dieter," said lawyer Vincent Dieters Vereecke. "He has called them to stop and he has one of them pulled the victims. But he admits that he then ran away without calling emergency services. These other two confirmed that in court. But a forensic psychiatrist has Dieter portrayed as untrustworthy, as a liar. " He was convicted of assault and battery, with the death."Dieter has been held up in the extreme right environment, but he has never dealt with the political ideals," says his father. "Dieter was passionate about music and he is so hard in that environment come. Those men gave him a podium. "The Bruggeling acted frequently in performances of the extreme right Blood and Honor. In a search flags were right, fascist literature and wine bottles with the pictures of Hitler found. "Questionable objects", to give Vereecke. "He raved in that environment, but he has never absorbed the ideology. He wrote no pamphlets, he was no speaker. He has never even been a member of Blood and Honor. "After the violence at Mensah turned Dieter S. slowly from the skinheads. "Was not easy," says Vereecke. "Almost all his friends came from that group. He was shunned by other people, just because it came from that environment. But with age came wisdom. He even applied to his music. ""Dieter has tried for his life on track, but he has lived four years in uncertainty", nods his father. "Time and again he was confronted with the story. On the internet they got his name through the mud. He was depressed and in 2008 made a first suicide attempt.

"Worthless degrees"

He tried through part-time education teacher to get a diploma. He learned through the internet his Brazilian girlfriend Priscilla know, the girl lived for several months in Belgium. She dreamed of going to Brazil to move to a street to catch. He has a very good training in Bruges as an educator made him afterwards but they have also to face the facts printed: if he was sentenced, his degree would be worthless. "The verdict came at me hard. In an email to a friend Dieter completed the day before his death the finger on the wound: "I will never work as an educator with children. I will never as a musician in the United States may occur. I will not be able to care for Priscilla. I have no future. "

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

With a bit of delay here comes the 5th issue of the English edition of “Skinhead magazine”. The zine shows good progress in inner design and layout, which I hope will continue in the future. Inside you can read bunch of quite interesting interviews, two of which: SPQR crew (Italy) and Antisystem (Russia) are taken by the author of this blog. Other bands featured in this issue are Feldherren from Bavaria /once again :)/and Spanish finest Invictos which you already know from our pages. Polish one man RAC project “The Invasion” is the next one – the guy behind it Kuba puts some light on the situation with the local scene and also about his future project called Brotherhood in which are also involved Graham from Avalon and good old Ken from Brutal Attack. The interview that grabbed my attention was with Lion’s Pride members. Alongside with the standard questions about their music, the lads are answering very deep and detailed on the political and historical sides concerning their beloved Flanders. The “Flemish question” is almost unknown for many comrades and it’s really exciting to learn about it. The second part of this interview will be published in the next issue of the zine due to the limited space in this one and I’m really looking forward to read it. In addion there is a report from Brazilian Skincore Fest, which guest of honour Bremen legends of Endstufe were… all in all another great issue full of handful information for skinheads. Cheers to Poli for keeping the skinzines on paper alive!!!